RX Cities Conference
Saturday 20th March 2010
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham
1000
Registration and coffee
1020
Welcome and introduction: Professor Ann Sumner (Barber Institute)
1035
Keynote speaker Dr Dorothy Rowe (University of Bristol): “Representing Cities”
1120
Joanne Anderson (University of Warwick): Representing and Resisting the City: the late
fourteenth-century Magdalen fresco cycle of Santa Maddalena in Rencio, Bolzano
1140
Rebecca Gill (University of Reading): Architecture as a product of its surroundings:
the particular case of Genoa and the Chiesa Gentilizia
1200
Aileen Naylor (University of Birmingham): A Tale of Two Cities: the Glasgow and
Birmingham Schools of Art
1220
Question Panel
1235
Lunch
0130
Dr Venda Louise Pollock (Newcastle University): The Afterlife of Artworks: memory and
place – identity in changing urban contexts
0150
Wulf Walter Boettger (Bauhaus University Weimar): The Spectacle of the Robotic Strip:
Kinetic Spaces as potential future forms of display and communication
0210
Maria Luisa Coelho (University of Reading): Re-membering matrilineal bonds in Athens:
Helen Chadwick’s Lofos Nymphon
0230
Question panel
0240
Tea Break
0300
Flavia Frigeri (University College, London): Rome’s multiple identities in the work of
Franco Angeli, Tano Festa and Mario Schifano
0320
Sarah Brown (University of Birmingham): Memory and Modernity in Post-Franco Barcelona:
Reflections on the Joan Miro Foundation (Centre for the Study of Contemporary Arts)
0340
Question panel
0350
Closing remarks